[bikerman]

For your information My wife is a nurse who works in critical care and watches as family's disregard the dying wishes of the elderly who are being eaten alive by disease and have no chance in hell of coming out alive their meager savings for the surviving spouse fading because of the so called heroics by the bleeding hearts and do gooders who want to postpone their death by artificial means knowing they didn't want to die this way and signed their living wills.They all end up dying shortly after being put on so called artificial means.

[Mr. Silverback]

For your information My wife is a nurse who works in critical care and watches as family's disregard the dying wishes of the elderly who are being eaten alive by disease and have no chance in hell of coming out alive their meager savings for the surviving spouse fading because of the so called heroics by the bleeding hearts and do gooders who want to postpone their death by artificial means knowing they didn't want to die this way and signed their living wills.They all end up dying shortly after being put on so called artificial means.

Give me a break.

First, there is a big fat difference between refusing medical care and having a doctor kill you.

Second, society has made provision for these people to control their medical care through the living will, DNR and other provisions. The fact that there are families who ignore these provisions does not mean that we need a new, radical and drastic provision for them to ignore, it means we need to enforce current statutes.

Either you understand these concepts and choose to ignore these crucial differences, or you really don't understand them. If it's the latter, you have as much business pontificating on this issue as Gomer Pyle has designing nuclear plants.

[floriduh voter]

nutrition and hydration should NEVER be withheld unless the patient is dumb enough to have a Living Wlll instead of a Will to Live (2 different documents. One will kill, the other will protect).

Living wills guarantee neglect and patients who change their mind about their wishes are often KILLED any way.

[floriduh voter]

By the way, TERRI WASN’T DYING. Not even close..... I know nurses who are still p-oed that she was murdered by judicial fiat not based upon the true medical facts that were suppressed by judge greer, the republican phony boob.

[floriduh voter]

Were you at Friva Las Vegas? If so, wasn’t that a hoot?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Take care, here, because we're talking about two different things.

A terminal patient has an absolute right to refuse drugs, chemo, radiation, surgery, disalysis, ventilators, and all that stuff which may well be futile, too expensive, or too burdensome to tolerate. If the patient has refused these things and the doctor imposes them against the patient's will, that's assault and the doctor can be prosecuted.

But legitimately refusing extraordinary interventions so as to die naturally, is quite different from Doctor Dingbat coming in and giving a deliberate lethal overdose. That's not comfort care or an appropriate treatment for pain. In fact, it's not a treatment at all.